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Santiago RicciEntrepreneur · Investor

Companies do not failfor lack of ideas.

They fail because nobody put the structure in order before scaling it. I have spent more than a decade building, buying and reorganising companies across seven countries. This is the public record of that work.

Santiago Ricci Tobón
12 Companies held across seven jurisdictions, all verifiable in public registers
14+ Years in business building and restructuring operating companies
3 Books published distributed internationally since 2019
The approach

Strategy without execution is an expensive opinion.

I have watched enough projects die with an immaculate business plan on the table. The problem is almost never the idea: it is the distance between what the company says it does and what its structure actually allows it to do.

My work is closing that distance. The operation is examined as it is, not as it should be. Where margin leaks, where effort is duplicated, and where the corporate structure gets in the way instead of protecting. Then it is rebuilt.

I do not sell motivation. I sell judgement built on my own operations, which are still running and which anyone can check in a commercial register.

A well-diversified portfolio is not a collection of bets. It is a structure in which each piece covers the risk of the next.

Santiago Ricci
BeforeAfter
Twelve units, the same business. Before, everything depends on everything and nobody knows who decides. After, the same twelve with a line of command. Nothing was added: it was ordered.
Publications

Three books, fourteen years of operating behind them.

Written for those who run a company, not for those who dream about one. Available on Amazon in Spanish.

Portada de The Entrepreneur Who Never Undertook 2019

The Entrepreneur Who Never Undertook

2019 · Spanish · ISBN 978-1-6774-0039-3

The book is about the distance between wanting to build something and building it. About the years lost waiting for the perfect idea, the right partner or the moment with less risk, while the window closes. Written for anyone who has spent too long about to start.

Portada de The Employee: Get Out of the Warm Waters of Mediocrity 2020

The Employee: Get Out of the Warm Waters of Mediocrity

2020 · Spanish · ISBN 979-8-5651-6892-1

On comfort as a risk. The salary that arrives on time, the predictable routine and the sense of stability are the exact conditions under which a career stops without anyone noticing. It is not an invitation to resign: it is an examination of what staying costs.

Portada de Hack Your Success with AI 2025

Hack Your Success with AI

2025 · Spanish · digital edition

How to apply artificial intelligence to a real business without turning it into an experiment. What to automate, what never to touch, and how to measure whether the saving is real or has merely moved somewhere else. The most technical of the three and the most directly applicable.

See the three books

Verification

Everything stated here can be checked.

Twelve companies incorporated and in force, identified by their registration number at Companies House, Äriregister, Receita Federal, S.A.T., the Registro Mercantil de España (Spanish Commercial Register) and the corresponding chambers of commerce. Own D-U-N-S number. Tax residence in Spain.

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The Letter

Private correspondence, not a newsletter.

There is no free download and no welcome course. I write when I have something worth the time of someone who runs a company: a deal that went wrong and why, a structure that worked, a reading of the market you will not find in a headline. One click to leave.

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